#publicschool

@jgordon Maybe #Americans should learn what a #cult is in #PublicSchool - before they’re old enough to vote for one?

#USpol #education

The Texas House Public Education Committee was scheduled to meet on Tuesday to take up two high priority bills which would address school funding and the creation of a school voucher plan. But the meeting was canceled late Monday night.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/04/02/517469/texas-house-delays-hearing-on-school-funding-and-voucher-bills-due-to-late-fiscal-analysis/

#Education #EducationNews #News #PublicSchool #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers #TexasHouse

Gov. Greg Abbott is resurfacing claims that public schools across the country are allowing students to act as “furries” in classrooms in his latest push to funnel taxpayer funds to private schools.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/03/17/516109/gov-greg-abbott-backs-bill-banning-non-human-behavior-in-schools/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Furries #PublicSchool #TexasLegislature #TexasSchools

Save public education. Join rally Friday in Great Falls Montana! #resist #wtf406 #education #PublicSchool #SavePublicSchools #GreatFallsMT #GreatFallsMontana #MTPol
https://www.tiktok.com/@montana_jasmine/video/7481132996523756846

#Trump repeatedly called for the elimination of the #Education Department during his presidential campaign. On Wednesday he called it a "con job" & said he wants it closed. [says a guy who never went to a #PublicSchool ever]

About 100 probationary employees received termination letters on Wednesday at the #GSA, according to two people familiar with the firings.

#privilege #USpol #law #idiocracy #autocracy

NH #HB283 being heard in committee on Monday

Look at all the classes they want to remove from New Hampshire Public schools “adequate education” list.

Just look at everything they have crossed off that they don’t want to be taught at public school anymore.

Please oppose this. It’s in the house education and policy administration committee on Monday the 10th.

Full text: https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB283/id/3041541/New_Hampshire-2025-HB283-Introduced.html

#PublicSchool #art #music #NH

A proposal creating a voucher-like program where public funds could be used towards private schools was passed by the Texas Senate Wednesday, just days after Gov. Greg Abbott made it an emergency item for the current legislative session.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/02/06/513106/texas-senate-passes-bill-creating-school-voucher-like-program/

#Education #EducationNews #News #PublicSchool #SchoolVouchers #TexasLegislature #TexasSenateEducationCommittee

I’ll start:

The resources at our local elementary school have been such wonderful, kind, supportive people. My family has made heavy use of the in-school #counselors and they have helped us navigate the #ADHD my genes have passed on.

The #teachers have been saints. They love my kids and want them to succeed. They see the special in each of them and I feel like my kids are known.

Bless our #publicSchool

The motivation for the Christian Nationalists can be cruelty and control, but sometimes it’s just for $$$.

Keep an eye out for the rebranding of abstinence only sex ed. Apparently NH has not taken funding from those who provide funding for this grift. But they could, and I don’t know what the other states are doing.

“But even without federal funding in New Hampshire, business is still booming for Joneen Mackenzie. Today, her SRA education program is in 47 states, including New Hampshire. “

https://www.nhpr.org/second-greatest/2020-02-05/you-asked-we-answered-is-there-a-statewide-sex-ed-curriculum-in-n-h-and-what-does-it-cover

#PublicSchool #SexEd #HIV #STI #SRA #WAIT #CRE #REAL #NH

Regulating #LGBTQ Speech in the #Classroom

24-19 Knight First Amend. Inst. (Oct. 25, 2024)
23 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2024
Caroline Mala Corbin
University of Miami School of Law

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5010954
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5010954.pdf?abstractid=5010954&mirid=1&type=2

Abstract:

#Publicschool #teachers across the country have found their speech relating to LGBTQ #students and issues more regulated than ever.

Is this the real reason “kids can’t read these days!”?

How does teaching them to guess which word it is teach them how to read words they have never seen before? This doesn’t even make sense. Is this why my friend’s kid got diagnosed with dyslexia?

https://www.nhpr.org/education/2024-12-05/heinemann-education-publisher-lawsuit-science-of-reading-cueing-literacy-curriculum

#MA #NH #PublicSchool #dyslexia #Heinemann

This is the #DisintegrationChecklist. #TheChecklist of what we can expect to lose in the next four years. That makes it a tool for gauging the progress of loss. 43 items. A grim countdown score in the form of a simple number: how many are still left? That is the #DisintegrationScore. 43... for now.

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from‬ https://absurdistwords.bsky.social‬:

#ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears (A non-exhaustive list)

#AbortionRights
#Contraception
#NoFaultDivorce
#ViolenceAgainstWomenAct (#VAWA)
#CivilRightsAct
#VotingRightsAct
#FirstAmendment Protections
#BirthrightCitizenship
#NaturalizationProtection
#EnvironmentalProtection
#ConsumerProtection
#FraudProtection
#PoliceBrutality #ConsentDecrees
#HabeasCorpus
Three #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
#GenderAffirmingCare
#HormoneReplacement
#InVitroFertilization
#SameSexMarriage
#InterracialMarriage
#AntiDiscrimination Laws
#WorkerSafety Laws
#CollectiveBargaining
#AffordableCareAct (#ACA)
#PrisonReform
#AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct (#ADA)
#RightToPrivacy
#SeparationOfChurchAndState
#ForeignAid Programs
#PovertyPrograms
#PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision
#SexualFreedom
#AntiSegregation Laws
#VaccineMandates
#PublicSchool System
#PublicLibrary System
#StareDecisis
#ChildLabor Laws
#Antitrust Laws
#LegalCannabis
#Pornography
#SexWorker Protections
#InternetFreedom
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Keeping track of this #DisintegrationChecklist, & the
#DisintegrationScore, is not a silly thing. I am not trying to #gamify the #apocalypse. It is a concrete measure, and if it is widely shared, it will make apparent even to the distracted the accelerating loss. A tool for those capable of caring.

https://bsky.app/profile/absurdistwords.bsky.social/post/3lb5wwj23v22u

Even voters in red states are realizing that school vouchers defund & destroy public schools.

“Election results show that vouchers are opposed by large majorities. But in some states, that sentiment has been overridden by the efforts of powerful governors and moneyed special interest groups.”

#USPol #SchoolVouchers #PublicSchool

https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-2024-election-trump

#RepublicanParty #mailer attacked #TedCruz’s opponent #ColinAllred for allowing a #trans #girl to compete in #girls #sports. As usual, their #hateful #falseclaims were based on #lies.

#Trans #Boy #MackBeggs fought to #compete with #boys but was forced to wrestle #girls due to the #gendermarker on his #birthcertificate, enforced by transphobic officials from the #TexasUniversityInterscholasticLeague, which oversees #publicschool #sports in the state.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/10/gop-mailer-bashed-ted-cruzs-opponent-for-letting-a-trans-girl-play-girls-sports-it-was-all-lies/

It's going to be a world wide trend soon.
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#California, with nearly 5.9 million #PublicSchool students, follows the lead of its own #LosAngelesCounty, whose school board banned #smartphones for its 429,000 students in June

California passes law to ban or restrict smartphones in school
https://www.rappler.com/world/us-canada/california-passes-law-ban-restrict-smartphones-in-school/

Here's the live steam for tonight's school board meeting. Lots of public comment against this school closure plan.

https://www.youtube.com/live/eqqHqPShFfs?feature=shared

#SPS #seattle #publicschool

These #regressive, misguided parents ARE free to opt their children out of the curriculum by enrolling them in a private #religiousSchool that better fits their worldview. They are NOT free to alter the #publicschool curriculum, or pick and choose which parts of the curriculum their children will learn, like an a la carte menu. This is another example of entitled, religious parents demanding that public schools accommodate their religious beliefs. No.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/parents-ask-supreme-court-take-up-case-restore-opt-outs-instruction-gender-sexuality

Mt. Moriah Masons Lodge in Towson donated $20,000 so the Student Support Network can continue its mission. They provide free food, clothing, toiletries, school supplies and some household items to students at 21 Baltimore County schools.

https://www.wmar2news.com/local/nonprofit-gives-students-chance-to-succeed-with-household-items

#Freemasons #PublicSchool #Charity #Towson #Maryland #Freemasonry

Well, that #Souderton Area #PublicSchool district meeting tonight was the wildest thing I've been to in a long time. A mass of folks calling for the resignation of #BillFormica and dozens defending him as a stalwart of conservative thinking in the community. I wish school board meetings could always pack a several hundred seat auditorium like a summer blockbuster movie but not because one of its members called the Vice President a mass fellator on Twitter/X.

Part 1: https://epistolary.org/@vees/113047225234186778

Part 2: https://epistolary.org/@vees/113048303722232280

#Pennsylvania #KamalaHarris

The unequal effects of #publicschool closings, #schoolvouchers: primary reason.

As more families opt for charter & prv. schools or homeschooling, cities are shuttering schools. The effects fall hardest on majority-Black schools & special-needs students.

Public school enrollmenta M students -attributed to the drop to families switching to prv. schools -aided by an expansion of voucher programs in many red & purple states +homeschooling & ~50K students: unaccounted for. https://www.propublica.org/article/school-closures-students-charter-schools-home-schooling-rochester